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[ SECRET POST #631 ]

⌈ Secret Post #631 ⌋

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101. Do tears of joy count?

117. But they did die. (Or is there some magical revival I missed out on ever since I left?)

125. PUBLISH IT

134. So she got to see the salad dressing?

145. Do vidya gaems count as a fandom?

160. Isn't it sad, Nayuki? ;_;

OF COURSE NOT, SILLY. ALL VIDEO GAMES ARE FOR CHILDREN AND THEREFORE DO NOT DESERVE A FANDOM.

128. Same, though linking them to something in fandom actually tends to make me like those songs more than I did before.

151. Aww, Hellbound! That was an awesome webcomic and totally hilarious. I wish it would start up again too.

156. Dude, I feel your pain. Her and Taggert, two great characters with close ties to more central characters, and they just let them slip right off the radar, didn't they? That's awful storytelling right there.

I miss Taggart SO MUCH... :-(

But he's coming back, and they say he couldn't come back for the first 8/Season 3.5 due to a scheduling conflict for Matt Frewer. He can't be back soon enough!

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lotus0kid.livejournal.com - 2008-09-28 12:35 (UTC) - Expand

You don't have to go to Japan just to make video games. There are several companies in America that publish video games, and you can work in those companies. The video game market is booming in America, and you're bound to find a good job with one of the companies.

And honestly, it seems a bit hypocritical of you to say that learning Japanese because of anime is stupid and then turn around and say that you want to learn Japanese because of video games. Even though it's a different medium, it's still the same damn reason. If you're learning Japanese because of video games, then you have no right to insult people who are learning Japanese because of anime.

DO WANT!

If you get/have links please share.

Anybody else think the whole "ALL Japanese people are xenophobic pricks who believe in overarching generalizations!" irony is pretty funny?

Well, to clarify most are.

I probably did say all somewhere though. Fail. And yes the irony is hilarious lulz.

145. Cartoons are vile and childish and warrant absolutely no praise whatsoever.

N!S 2. CAN NOT UNSEE. CAN NEVER UNSEE.

160. I think you and I should be friends, even if Shiori was my favorite Nayuki came in close second! 8D

N!S 2.

HOLY TESTACLE TUESDAY, I CAN'T UNSEE IT

129. Yes, yes, yes. Completely.

145. Dr Who and Harry Potter are totally mature unlike those silly cartoons, guys.

160. I love Nayuki. Even back when I was like twelve and watched the first anime adaptation and was all "wat, she loves her cousin? EW~".

163. I guess it's the fact that you do have to focus on them to read them, as opposed to say, looking at the character's face while they talk.

130. Damn straight.

149. For me I ship House/Cameron/13. It's weird, because I almost never OT3.

145. yeah okay fuck you.

150 = BAWW MY COSPLAYS SUCK, IT MUST BE BECAUSE I'M NOT ASIAN

157. No. Learning Japanese is only going to help you if you want to localize Japanese games. If you want to get in the game industry, you need to start playing games developed outside of Japan, and you need to get into the modding scene. And you need to do a LOT more research.

163. I agree... sometimes I have to turn CC on when I watch movies if their accents are too thick for me to understand. Though I do prefer dubs when they're good, because sometimes when things are happening really fast, I miss stuff while I'm reading subtitles and have to skip back a bit.

Leaving aside the kinda hypocrisy of this secret, as I'm someone in the video game industry over here, I have a few words to the actual content/your dream:

1) Most big Japanese video game companies WILL hire employees from other places ... if you have the credentials to back it up. Gamasutra (an excellent industry news site to follow if you're interested in the business, btw) had a recent article submission from a young developer who'd been accepted to work over at a major Japanese game company (I can't remember under which well-known designer off the top of my head, unfortunately) and his experiences with it. However, the thing is, he had met this famous designer in person while the designer was visiting the American studio he was currently working at, and while there, sat down with his portfolio and demonstrated that he would, in fact, be an asset worth taking a risk on.

2) Small Japanese companies aren't likely to be able to make the games you're interested in, or are more reluctant to hire outside talent in general, etc, unless they're sure you're good. There's always the chance, but in general you want, also, a portfolio of previous works to present to them.

3) Because of points 1 and 2, I'd suggest you learn the industry before you try to get hired in a foreign language, with employers who don't want the hassle of dealing with work visa issues, etc, unless they believe you're worth it. There are several ways to do this: a) get a degree in video game design in the field you're interested in (I notice you didn't specify, and this is an important difference. A designer's skills, an artist's skills, and a programmer's skills will have vastly different requirements to bring to the table, including issues like 'oh man, it's one thing to speak Japanese and it's another to have to code in it'). b) Get a job at a video game company and spend 2-5 years working on games there.

I say 2-5 because the video game industry has a lot of layoffs and high turnover time, since people will often get laid off when a company is between projects, etc. This is especially prevalent in the big companies, but if you'r ehoping to work on Big Name Titles to get recognition you can bring with you to other countries, that's a risk you might have to take.

4)Be prepared for the workload difference. The video game industry in general is well-known for "crunch" -- there's been major issues with it (look up the "EA Spouse" if you don't know of it). The industry IS reexamining it and trying to change, but as is, at certain points in projects, 60-100 hour weeks are considered pretty normal. Designers (ie, writers/creative) tend to have less on the crunch because they're doing less time-sensitive work, but even then, I can say I've had 60+ hour weeks before. Programmers and QA can expect to have worse. Having said that, Japan is known for much worse crunch than North American companies. One figure I've heard bandied around is that 13 hour work days in Japanese companies is more the norm than the exception.

In short, your dream isn't impossible, but please understand that "learning Japanese" is really the least of it. Learning the skills, learning the taxing requirements, and learning the job industry in general is the biggest hitch, because regardless of how flawless your Japanese is, you won't be hired if you don't have the work experience. You might not like HALO, but trust me, if you can say "I was one of the designers on HALO" in broken Japanese or even English, you'll have a higher chance of Japanese companies looking your way than if you say "I have no experience, but I can communicate well with your team."

A designer's skills, an artist's skills, and a programmer's skills will have vastly different requirements to bring to the table, including issues like 'oh man, it's one thing to speak Japanese and it's another to have to code in it')

Not to mention that it requires an entirely different set of language skills to be able to read and write technical documents. I have to translate them occasionally at my job and it can be pretty awful because they tend to use vocabulary that I simply haven't encountered before; several times my Japanese boss has told me that even HE has to look words or phrases up while reading them. If this person thinks they're going to be able to learn the type of specific language they'll need to work in the industry by just taking a few classes, they're sadly mistaken.

(I can spell, I swear.)

Edited 2008-09-28 05:33 (UTC)

Uuuugh, Naruto secrets.
I miss the days when this LJ was truer to Post Secrets than the "look at my small font over this generic naruto picture."
Bah, I am old.

130: Still have a major soft spot for this pairing too (can't say I have a definitive OTP though... I love both R/S AND R/T:)

144: OH FUCK YES! I've been waiting for a Dylan secret to come up (mind you I've only read F!S from the past month and a half), and I don't know where the fandom is either, but i like this pairing.

Part of me is going "YES!" because sticky fic has no place in TransFandom IMO.

But then there's the part of me that goes, "Well, that's only your opinion. Don't like, don't read."

107: IAWTC. And I feel the same way about most things.. Don't make the TMNT human, either (I've seen that, too. Stop it!). Deal with the characters as they are(human, robot, alien, anthro, whatever), or find other characters more suited to your tastes to write about, kplsthnx. Not to say you can't still be fans of Transformers, or TNMT, or whatever, but don't write them as something they're not.

130: Yes.

137: You need to talk to the dude in secret 107... What's the fandom, btw?

142: I'm pretty sure she was just saying that to fuc with him and get him under her control.

145: Yes, becasue no cartoon could ever be as sophisticated as DW or HP... [snicker]

I'm pretty sure she was just saying that to fuc with him and get him under her control

Nooooo, don't say that =(
I totally want them to be actually related!

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seiberwing.livejournal.com - 2008-09-28 09:31 (UTC) - Expand

146 - I thought that was part of the humor of the thing. I mean, he's not bad looking. And he's quite funny which I find sexy but... Your secret confuses me.

Maybe it's best I only know like two other Boosh fans.

I love your icon so hard. ^_^

Browsing awesome icons is what really keeps me coming back to F!S

slowplay.livejournal.com - 2008-09-28 05:20 (UTC) - Expand

Cause it's surprisingly easy to have sex with someone you don't love and moreover probably don't even like. It's hotter that way.

Heh, I don't actually think you have to love someone to have hot sex with them. My point was that I think he's a complete ass, and until this point I thought I at least had to be able to tolerate someone before I'd find them sexy. But clearly I was wrong. ^^;;

Oh man, I have the exact same thing with Arashi :( I can NOT hear Love So Sweet without BAWLING. MY. EYES. OUT.
And man do I feel silly for it :( Sappy music fans, unite! (ish)

117. Ew, Comic Sans.

145. lol

160. Awww. I've only watched two episodes of Kanon, and I already like Nayuki better.

Clannad even got a separate OVA and a separate game for freakin' Tomoyo (and I love Tomoyo, but... Nagisa/Tomoya is my OTP, emphasis on the O, for Clannad) to appease the fanboys. Sucks about Key/KyoAni not doing the same for Kanon, I guess.

PS. OP, your secret's kind of unreadable.

112. Yes, people only say bad things about that which they dislike because it's COOL. No, it's called an opinion. Suck it up and respect it or people won't respect your's.

134. You can still help the homeless and not eat meat?

136. Shitty crisis and countdown series are the reasons I'm not active in reading DC comics.

145. Naruto is a big enough franchise with a sucessful on-going comic book and cartoon series with action figures and a strong mythology to be entitled a fandom.

160. You were rooting for the incest pairing?

Srsly. The only DC books I read are JSA and Manhunter (because they seem to exist in their own continuity bubble) and Wonder Woman (because Gail Simone is awesome). The rest I couldn't give two shits about.

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hako-neko.livejournal.com - 2008-09-28 03:57 (UTC) - Expand

112 OP

(Anonymous) - 2008-09-28 04:32 (UTC) - Expand

I'm studying Japanese so I can finally understand all the doujinshi I've been jilling off to. (Yes, I'm 100% serious here.)

I was folding laundry the other day and came across my shirt from a short-lived anime club, and for the first time I was able to read the words on it. NEVER HAVE I FELT SO PROUD OF MYSELF.

I'm studying Japanese so I can finally understand all the doujinshi I've been jilling off to. (Yes, I'm 100% serious here.)

That's probably the best reason I've heard for anything ever.

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(Anonymous) - 2008-09-28 05:13 (UTC) - Expand

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